210 examples of insufficiencies in sentences

My own case had taught me the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence to settle a mooted fact.

It was her purpose, "by tracing out the workings of passionthe struggle of human affectionthrough various climes, and ages, and conditions of life, to illustrate the insufficiency of any dispensation, save that of an ill-embracing Christianity, to soothe the sorrows, or sustain the hopes, or fulfil the desires of an immortal being whose lot is cast in a world where cares and bereavements are many."

Perhaps the most important feature of the book is the prominence it gives to the difficulties and insufficiencies of idealism.

A certain philosopher, a monk named Constantine, after having exposed the insufficiency of other religions, eloquently set before the Prince those judgments of God which are in the world, the redemption of the human race by the blood of Christ, and the retribution of the life to come.

Now to consider the effects of an excess of it, the condition called hyperthyroidism, as the insufficiency of it is labelled subthyroidism.

If the bony container is or becomes too small for its contents, it is interesting that along with the other signs of pituitary insufficiency, such as undersize, obesity, and asymmetry, there developes conspicuous moral and intellectual inferiority.

Hence fatigability, an inability to maintain effort, is one of the prominent complaints when there is destruction or an insufficiency of it for one reason or another.

There results a condition of temporary or chronic adrenal insufficiency, supposedly an insufficient functioning of the gland as a whole.

When these symptoms concur in the type of personality whom I shall describe as the unstable adrenal-centered individual, there is evidence for explaining the process as the effect of an insufficiency of secretion by the adrenal gland.

Shock, collapse, heart failure and sudden death following abnormal emotion, like an attack of rage, or the terrors of a railroad accident, or bad news, or excessive exertion like running a long race or climbing a high mountain when in poor general health, as the phrase goes, or in the terminal stages of infections like epidemic influenza or Asiatic cholera, have been put down to an acute insufficiency of the adrenal gland.

That is because their particular disease, or what appears to them to be their very own diseaseand they certainly cherish their ailmentsis but an expression of, a compensation for, indeed a consolation for, the underlying feelings of insufficiency or inferiority.

To the physiologist and the psychologist, the feeling of insufficiency is the disease, no matter how spectacular the overlaying phenomenaa cripple on crutches or a man blind and speechless.

And as a matter of fact, a good number of observations conspire for the idea that a certain number of neurasthenics are suffering from insufficiency of the adrenal gland.

ADRENAL EXCESS The converse of adrenal insufficiency, that of adrenal excess, also exists.

A somewhat similar picture is evolved in certain types of insufficiency of the pituitary gland.

In Napoleon's case the brain attacks may have been crises of pituitary insufficiency in a hyper-pituitary type.

That he never permitted feeling to interfere with the dictates of his judgment, a quality which rendered him the most unscrupulous careerist of history, must be put down to an insufficiency of the post-pituitary.

The findings after death confirm the view of him as an unstable pituitocentric who succumbed to pituitary insufficiency toward the latter half of his life.

In other words, the typical feminization of the body which accompanies pituitary insufficiency was found.

We have noted in previous chapters the relation of neurasthenia to the glands of internal secretion in general, and to adrenal insufficiency in particular.

And, as has been emphasized in preceding chapters, most neurasthenia rises upon a disturbed endocrine foundation, most often, an insufficiency of the adrenals.

All these details I have given in the attempt to analyze the internal secretion constitution of this great man of genius, to establish that he really suffered from inadequate function of his adrenal glands, for the symptoms of chronic though benign adrenal insufficiency coincide in their mass effect with the story of his life.

When Lord Haldane, defending his party for certain insufficiencies in their preparation for the eventuality of the great war, pleaded that they had no "mandate" from the country to do anything of the sort, he did more than commit political suicide, he bore conclusive witness against the whole system which had made him what he was.

There is, moreover, in the drama, the same distaste of the world which Byron himself expressed when cogitating on the desolation of his hearth, and the same contempt of the insufficiency of his genius and renown to mitigate contritionall in strange harmony with the same magnificent objects of sight.

The whole epistle is a war on pagan philosophy, the insufficiency of good works without faith,the lever by which in later times Wyclif, Huss, Luther, Calvin, Knox, and Saint Cyran overthrew a pharisaic system of outward righteousness.

210 examples of  insufficiencies  in sentences